While Booth lay dying, Colonel Everton Conger searched the assassin’s pockets. He removed the following
• Diary
• Bills of exchange
• Money
• Compass
• Whistle
• Wood shavings
• Tobacco
• Small folding knife
• Stick pin
• Weapons – 2 revolvers, 1 Spencer repeating carbine, 1 Bowie knife and a pistol belt
• Piece of map from wall of Garrett farmhouse